From the email of Montana’s U.S. District Chief Judge Richard Cebull, a federal judge (h/t reader J): “Normally I don’t send or forward a lot of these, but even by my standards, it was a bit touching. I want all of my friends to feel what I felt when I read this. Hope it touches …
Archives for February 2012
R.I.P. Davy Jones
__ Davy Jones, the singer for the Monkees perhaps best known for his vocals on “Daydream Believer,” died on Wednesday at his home in Indiantown, Fla. He was 66. __ The cause was a heart attack, according to the medical examiner’s officer there and a spokeswoman for the singer. __ Mr. Jones, a former jockey …
Open Thread
Figure you all know more than me about this stuff, so I thought I would ask. In my never-ending effort to stop being a disgusting wide body, I have switched to using Egg Beaters instead of regular eggs. I gotta admit, I made a spinach omelet with mushrooms, onions, diced tomatoes, and diced red bell …
He’s Learning
Doug Mataconis: James Joyner has expressed the hope in several recent posts here at OTB that the Republican Party will return to sanity at some point. Even if it takes an election cycle or two, I hope he’s right because the one thing this country needs desperately is a strong two-party system populated by opposing …
Apple pie and Chevrolet
I’m a little bit surprised about the wingnut freak-out against Sandra Fluke. As a generally uptight person, I’m hesitant to go here, but it seems so obvious: do Republicans really want to campaign against sex-crazed co-eds? If you outlaw sex-crazed co-eds…
WE HAVE LIFTOFF
Me, yesterday, on the wingnut response to Sandra Fluke’s testimony: C’mon, wingnuts, quit nancying around and just call them sluts. Limbaugh, today: LIMBAUGH: What does it say about the college co-ed Susan Fluke [sic] who goes before a congressional committee and essentially says that she must be paid to have sex. What does that make …
Back to Bobby
You can smell the desperation: When you have a candidate few people really like, whose support is a mile wide and an inch deep, whose raison d’etre (a 4am fancy word) is fixing an economy that is fixing itself without him, and who only wins his actual, factual home state by three percentage points against …